Microservices Jobs

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 71 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 -19 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,964 3,627 5,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.51% 3.30% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 3.99% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 992 2,697 3,263
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £75,781
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -14.23% +1.04%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.37% -9.32% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,882 90,813 88,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.69% 82.65% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,914 62,635 53,651
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +5 1,773 £72,500 +11.54% 1,931
UK excluding London -11 1,274 £70,000 +14.37% 1,396
Work from Home -1 1,112 £71,991 +17.62% 1,163
London +8 670 £84,500 +2.42% 914
North of England +12 542 £71,991 +17.62% 372
North West +43 455 £67,037 +3.13% 241
South East -34 252 £70,000 +16.67% 509
Midlands -3 160 £67,500 +12.50% 162
Scotland -18 148 £78,810 +21.25% 120
South West +14 111 £70,258 +17.10% 101
West Midlands -6 93 £70,000 +7.69% 69
Yorkshire -34 79 £73,685 +21.59% 93
East Midlands +21 67 £62,500 +13.64% 90
East of England -34 50 £60,000 -7.69% 41
Wales +12 15 £52,000 -0.95% 17
North East -16 8 £69,519 +13.58% 39
Northern Ireland +11 4 £50,000 -23.08% 51

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 210 (10.69%) Confluence
2 26 (1.32%) CMS
3 23 (1.17%) Jupyter
4 22 (1.12%) Apache
5 19 (0.97%) JBoss
6 15 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
8 11 (0.56%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.25%) Appian
10 5 (0.25%) SAS
11 4 (0.20%) GemFire
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.15%) Drupal
12 3 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.15%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.51%) Maya
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.051%) Moqups
5 1 (0.051%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Eikon
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) RMDS
3 2 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.051%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,146 (58.35%) AWS
2 1,016 (51.73%) Azure
3 585 (29.79%) GCP
4 219 (11.15%) Serverless
5 113 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (5.14%) SaaS
7 99 (5.04%) GitHub
8 92 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 76 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
11 73 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
12 59 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
13 57 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
14 51 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 50 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 36 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
19 34 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
20 29 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.12%) HTTP
2 19 (0.97%) Firewall
2 19 (0.97%) Internet
3 17 (0.87%) Network Security
4 8 (0.41%) DNS
5 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.25%) WAN
7 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.20%) 5G
8 2 (0.10%) Broadband
8 2 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.10%) SSH
8 2 (0.10%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.051%) BGP
9 1 (0.051%) DAB
9 1 (0.051%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.051%) SAN
9 1 (0.051%) SSL
9 1 (0.051%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (18.74%) SQL Server
2 217 (11.05%) NoSQL
3 185 (9.42%) MongoDB
4 183 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
5 127 (6.47%) Relational Database
6 86 (4.38%) MySQL
7 71 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
8 70 (3.56%) DynamoDB
9 68 (3.46%) Big Data
10 44 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
10 44 (2.24%) Redis
11 42 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.14%) RDBMS
12 29 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
13 22 (1.12%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (0.56%) Oracle Database
17 9 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
18 8 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 333 (16.96%) GitLab
2 329 (16.75%) JIRA
3 305 (15.53%) Maven
4 294 (14.97%) SonarQube
5 275 (14.00%) Selenium
6 274 (13.95%) Cucumber
6 274 (13.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 261 (13.29%) Bitbucket
8 253 (12.88%) Git
9 189 (9.62%) Jenkins
10 99 (5.04%) JUnit
11 54 (2.75%) Mockito
12 47 (2.39%) Visual Studio
13 40 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
14 30 (1.53%) MSBuild
15 28 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
16 27 (1.37%) Cypress.io
16 27 (1.37%) JMeter
17 23 (1.17%) CircleCI
18 22 (1.12%) Postman
General
1 754 (38.39%) Finance
2 605 (30.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 553 (28.16%) Banking
4 407 (20.72%) Social Skills
5 201 (10.23%) Law
6 161 (8.20%) Retail
7 124 (6.31%) Investment Banking
8 99 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (4.58%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (4.23%) Public Sector
11 62 (3.16%) Marketing
12 43 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 35 (1.78%) Games
14 30 (1.53%) Front Office
15 18 (0.92%) Back Office
16 17 (0.87%) Advertising
17 15 (0.76%) Legal
18 13 (0.66%) Dutch Language
18 13 (0.66%) French Language
18 13 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 771 (39.26%) Software Engineer
2 523 (26.63%) Senior
3 492 (25.05%) Developer
4 303 (15.43%) Lead
5 279 (14.21%) Senior Software Engineer
6 244 (12.42%) Architect
7 147 (7.48%) Java Engineer
8 146 (7.43%) Java Developer
9 126 (6.42%) Senior Developer
10 118 (6.01%) .NET Developer
11 117 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
12 112 (5.70%) Java Software Engineer
13 76 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
14 69 (3.51%) C# Developer
15 61 (3.11%) Lead Software Engineer
16 60 (3.05%) Lead Developer
17 52 (2.65%) Senior Architect
18 40 (2.04%) Technical Architect
19 38 (1.93%) C# .NET Developer
20 35 (1.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (28.31%) Spring
2 551 (28.05%) React
3 525 (26.73%) Kafka
4 523 (26.63%) Spring Boot
5 511 (26.02%) .NET
6 416 (21.18%) RESTful
7 408 (20.77%) HTML
8 394 (20.06%) REST
9 381 (19.40%) CSS
10 332 (16.90%) Node.js
11 292 (14.87%) JPA
12 254 (12.93%) Redux
13 253 (12.88%) Hibernate
14 216 (11.00%) AngularJS
15 145 (7.38%) .NET Core
16 142 (7.23%) HTML5
17 127 (6.47%) Web Services
18 118 (6.01%) CSS3
19 117 (5.96%) Jest
20 106 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 380 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 330 (16.80%) Enterprise Software
3 270 (13.75%) Cloud Native
4 203 (10.34%) Cyberattack
5 189 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
6 182 (9.27%) Linux Command Line
7 161 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
8 75 (3.82%) Algorithms
9 74 (3.77%) Public Cloud
10 71 (3.62%) Management Information System
11 51 (2.60%) Mobile App
12 44 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
13 34 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.37%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
16 23 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
17 22 (1.12%) Private Cloud
18 21 (1.07%) Derivative
19 20 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 269 (13.70%) Linux
2 32 (1.63%) Windows
3 29 (1.48%) Unix
4 16 (0.81%) Android
5 10 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.10%) Debian
8 2 (0.10%) zOS
9 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,224 (62.32%) Agile
2 1,019 (51.88%) Software Engineering
3 887 (45.16%) CI/CD
4 867 (44.14%) DevOps
5 624 (31.77%) Containerisation
6 529 (26.93%) Mentoring
7 485 (24.69%) Test Automation
8 484 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 465 (23.68%) TDD
10 435 (22.15%) SDLC
11 351 (17.87%) Scrum
12 343 (17.46%) User Experience
13 324 (16.50%) Front End Development
14 323 (16.45%) Performance Optimisation
15 316 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 284 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
17 266 (13.54%) Machine Learning
18 255 (12.98%) Clean Code
19 236 (12.02%) Event-Driven
20 221 (11.25%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1,083 (55.14%) Java
2 801 (40.78%) JavaScript
3 621 (31.62%) SQL
4 492 (25.05%) Python
5 366 (18.64%) C#
6 285 (14.51%) TypeScript
7 273 (13.90%) Go
8 199 (10.13%) C++
9 192 (9.78%) Rust
10 53 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 45 (2.29%) PHP
12 34 (1.73%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.37%) C
15 24 (1.22%) Bash
16 23 (1.17%) Scala
17 22 (1.12%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.76%) Groovy
19 14 (0.71%) Ruby
20 10 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 315 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 247 (12.58%) Degree
3 233 (11.86%) AWS Certification
4 220 (11.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 212 (10.79%) DV Cleared
6 179 (9.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 116 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 87 (4.43%) SC Cleared
9 52 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 41 (2.09%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.76%) HND
11 15 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.15%) OCP
15 3 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (16.70%) QA
2 113 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 79 (4.02%) GDPR
4 37 (1.88%) HIPAA
5 25 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 16 (0.81%) SLA
8 12 (0.61%) NIST
9 10 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.31%) CDISC
11 4 (0.20%) Basel II
11 4 (0.20%) Basel III
11 4 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.20%) IFRS
11 4 (0.20%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.20%) WCAG
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 818 (41.65%) Docker
2 32 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.20%) Postfix
6 3 (0.15%) HDFS
6 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.15%) vSphere
7 2 (0.10%) KVM
7 2 (0.10%) Xen
8 1 (0.051%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.051%) Firmware
8 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 843 (42.92%) Kubernetes
2 195 (9.93%) Terraform
3 80 (4.07%) Grafana
4 78 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 55 (2.80%) Ansible
6 23 (1.17%) Kibana
7 20 (1.02%) Argo
8 18 (0.92%) Istio
9 13 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.41%) Mesos
12 6 (0.31%) Puppet
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
14 2 (0.10%) CA Endevor
14 2 (0.10%) CFEngine
14 2 (0.10%) Consul
14 2 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.10%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.051%) Kiali
15 1 (0.051%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 254 (12.93%) Solace
2 166 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 85 (4.33%) Google
4 55 (2.80%) Oracle
5 36 (1.83%) IBM
6 33 (1.68%) Splunk
7 30 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 27 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.17%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 13 (0.66%) Databricks
12 12 (0.61%) YouTube
13 11 (0.56%) Guidewire
13 11 (0.56%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.56%) SAP
14 9 (0.46%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.46%) Cisco
14 9 (0.46%) Facebook
14 9 (0.46%) New Relic
14 9 (0.46%) Ping Identity